Live Garden Webcams

Garden webcams look over gardens of every scale: palace and botanical gardens, temple gardens, courtyards, allotments and private backyards. The frame often includes a pond, flower beds, a lawn or a bird table, and the view changes with every season.

Gardens are slow places, and their cameras reward patience. Tulips open over a few days, a pond freezes and thaws, the first leaves appear and the lawn gets mown. Small visitors bring movement: birds at the feeder, squirrels, hedgehogs at dusk, frogs and dragonflies by the water, now and then a fox crossing the grass at night.

Spring and early summer are the high season, with blossom and nesting birds; autumn brings colour and falling leaves, and winter shows the bare structure of a garden under frost or snow. Formal gardens open to visitors are busiest at weekends and on sunny afternoons, while private gardens are quietest during the working day.